Word: basilic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt's good friends Herbert Lehman, James A. Farley and Basil O'Connor (Mr. Roosevelt's onetime law partner). Finally he declared the whole New Deal fundamentally unworkable. After losing the election to Governor Lehman, Mr. Moses picked up where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner, his nothing-a-year...
...threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit of sneering at his opponents, one of the most unpopular members of a supposedly popular house...
...bawdry which somehow manages to dodge the usual tiresome vulgarity of the part. Brian Aherne, in a curly red wig, is an ebullient Mercutio, gay as May in the Queen Mab speech, bitter as gall when he dies cursing "both your houses." Capable but less distinguished as Romeo is Basil Rathbone, whose virtuosity appears to stop just this side of eloquence. His pausing, prosy delivery is perhaps better suited to modern evening dress than to 16th Century tights...
...Other guests who partook of the hospitality of the white cottage among the murmuring pines: Nelson Cheney, New York State Senator, a Republican but an old friend; Eugene R. Black, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve (see p. 53); Chairman Frank McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly of the Federal Power Commission; David Lilienthal of TVA; Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly...
Ferdinand de Levis (Basil Rathbone) is a hypersensitive Jew who feels the veiled disdain of London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...